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58 Cards in this Set
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Traveled to China and returned with stories of his adventures |
Marco Polo |
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Successfully completed a trading expedition on an all water route to India |
Vasco da Gama |
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Began nivational school |
Prince Henry |
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First sailor to round the southern tip of Africa |
Bartholomeu Dias |
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His ship first sailer round the world |
Magellan |
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Conquered Aztec Indians |
Cortez |
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Discovered Pacific Ocean for Spain |
Balboa |
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Searched for fountain of youth |
Ponce de Leon |
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Explored the southwest US |
Coronado |
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Conquered incas Indians |
Pizarro |
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Discovered Mississippi River |
De Soto |
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Sailed to newfoundland and Virginia for England |
Hudson |
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Claimed rich land for Netherlands |
Cartier |
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Founded Quebec.. Father of new France |
Champlain |
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Catholic priest explored upper Mississippi |
Marquette |
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Thought Mississippi might turn west and be passageway to china |
Joliet |
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Sailed the length of the Mississippi to Gulf of Mexico |
La salle |
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Which countries?? |
Spain, France, England, and Netherlands |
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Spanish came to? |
California |
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French came to? |
Quebec |
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English came to? |
Jamestown |
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Dutch came to? |
Netherlands |
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Founded Georgia to give debtors a new life |
James Oglethorpe |
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Began settlement at Hartford, Connecticut fo4 religious freedom |
Thomas Hooker |
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First planted tobacco in Jamestown |
John Rolfe |
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Established Maryland for persecuted catholics |
Lord Baltimore |
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People who settled in new Jersey and Delaware |
Quakers |
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Began Rhode island colony which allowed freedom of religion |
Roger Williams |
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Toleration Act |
Religious freedom |
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3 regions? |
New England, middle colonies, Southern colonies |
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Parliament had right to tax |
Declaratory Act |
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Tax on important papers |
Stamp Act |
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Forbade settling in Ohio Valley |
Proclamation 1763 |
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Curtailed trade with west indies |
Sugar and Molasses Act |
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Ended self government in Boston |
Intolerable acts |
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Tax on glass, paper, paint, and tea |
Townshend acts |
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Allows Americans to house and feed British troops |
Quartering act |
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Surrendered at Saratoga |
General Burgoyne |
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Surrendered at Yorktown |
Cornwallis |
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Give me liberty or give me death |
Patrick Henry |
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Secretary of state |
Jefferson |
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Secretary of treasury |
Hamilton |
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Secretary of war |
Henry Knox |
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Attorney General |
Edmund Randolph |
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Explorers who opened trail in Oregon |
Lewis and Clark |
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise |
Kansas Nebraska Act |
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Prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River |
Northwest Ordinance |
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Admitted California as a free state |
Compromise of 1850 |
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Law prohibiting slavery north of 36 degree 30' |
Missouri compromise |
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Called slavery a crime |
William Lloyd Garrison |
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Led slave rebellion in Virginia |
Nat Turner |
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Was a freed slave |
Sojourner Truth |
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Published a newspaper |
Frederick Douglas |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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President of confederacy |
Jefferson Davis |
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Man who agreed 4 Americans to settle in Texas |
Moses Austin |
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Dictator of MX . Alarmed at rate if Americans in TX |
Santa Ana |
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Gadsden purchase bought land in |
Mexico |